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Thu 02 Feb 2010Protesters turn out to run with the hare but condemn coursing with hounds
“ABSURDLY MACHO” was how a columnist in The Spectatorrecently described hurling. Britain’s right-wing weekly should have dispatched a correspondent to Clonmel yesterday for the coursing, such was the level of testosterone in the Powerstown Park air.
For the uninitiated, coursing involves greyhounds chasing live hares in speed trials which aficionados find hugely exciting.
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